Moses Nowkawalk – His Story

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Members from both sides of Moses’s family were relocated to Resolute Bay and Grise Fiord in 1955.

My father’s relatives were sent to Resolute Bay. His cousins, first cousins, his aunt and their families were shipped out to Resolute. My mother’s older sister, Rynee was shipped off to Grise Fiord to validate the Canadian’s government claim to the territory. They were close knit families and they were torn apart to satisfy government’s claim over the High Arctic.”

“That would be human right violation today, wouldn’t it? To break up families, to lie to them, make them think they would be able to come back .”

Moses Nowkawalk – Inukjuak, 2011